Geobulletin alpha

News from the Geoblogosphere feed

by Stratigraphy.net
New from Snet: Lithologs, a new tool to create lithological/sedimentological logs online..

Posts treating: "Creative Commons"

Friday, 17 June 2016

sort by: date | clicks

Media skills for scientists – how to get them! 

Geology Jenga [2016-06-17 14:00:21]  recommend  recommend this post  (719 visits) info

 GB,CN,US,
I certainly don’t need to write at any length about the fact I think it is crucial that scientists communicate their research with the public. Over the summer we’ll be sharing a few posts on this very subject. To get the ball rolling I thought I’d focus on one aspect of science communication (#scicomm): how to get your research out there to the media, be it written press, radio or TV. If I put my mind to it, I could write a little how-to-guide, but truth is, there are others [...]

Imaggeo on Mondays: Using geophysical techniques to unlock the secrets of the past 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [2016-06-13 13:15:29]  recommend  recommend this post  (155 visits) info

 MX,CN,KH,US
Unravelling the secrets of past civilisations is tricky at the best of times. More so if many of the records which hold clues about how communities lived, built their homes and temples, as well as how they fed themselves, were destroyed by subsequent invaders. In these instances, as Felix Rodriguez Cardozo explains in today’s post, geophysical techniques (such as Lidar, which very recently hit the headlines for contributing to discover new Cambodian temples close to Angkor Wat) can be a great [...]

Imaggeo on Mondays: The British Winter Storms 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [2016-06-06 13:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (200 visits) info

 GB,CN
This week’s imaggeo on Monday’s photography is Godrevy Lighthouse in North Cornwall (UK) experiencing the full force of the 2013/14 British Winter Storms which caused damage across the south west of the country. During mid-December 2013 to mid-February 2014 the UK was hit by six major storms bringing record precipitation, strong winds, huge waves and generating overall hazardous conditions. Despite the overall consensus being that these winter months were very wet, the question arose: did [...]

Imaggeo on Mondays: Storm on the Rock 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [2016-05-30 12:30:21]  recommend  recommend this post  (191 visits) info

 ZA,AU,CN
This is a photograph of Uluru, in the Northern Territory of Australia, on a hot and humid summer afternoon. As lightning flashed about, torrential rains swept across the landscape and silver rivulets of water began to rush down the sides of the mountain. Uluru is made of red-coloured Proterozoic arkosic sandstones, a coarse grained lithology rich in quartz and feldspars. However, on rare days such as this, the storm clouds and moisture in the atmosphere filter out much of the red end of the [...]

Share the work you presented at EGU 2016: upload your presentations for online publication 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [2016-05-18 13:00:57]  recommend  recommend this post  (134 visits) info

 IT,CN
This year it is, once again, possible to upload your oral presentations, PICO presentations and posters from EGU 2016 for online publication alongside your abstract, giving all participants a chance to revisit your contribution – hurrah for open science! Files can be in either PowerPoint or PDF format. Note that presentations will be distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Licence. Uploading your presentation is free of charge and is not followed by a review process. The [...]

Imaggeo on Mondays: Half dome at sunset 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [2016-05-16 13:03:27]  recommend  recommend this post  (166 visits) info

 US,CN,
Yosemite’s Half Dome stands, majestic, over a granite dominated terrain in the Yosemite Valley area;  one of the most beautiful landscapes in northern America, and arguably, the world – it is also an Earth scientist’ playground. Stamped into the west slope of the Sierra Nevada range, the Yosemite Valley is a collection of lush forests, deep valleys, meandering rivers and streams, all punctuated by huge domes and cliffs of ancient volcanic origin. Come and explore this part of the [...]

Imaggeo on Mondays: Earth Wave 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [2016-05-09 12:30:11]  recommend  recommend this post  (161 visits) info

 Quaternary; FR,US,CN,KM,
Take a stroll along the norther beaches of the French Channel Coast, some kilometers east from the entrance of the Channel Tunnel, and you’ll encounter an imposing cliff of soft, sandy composition which dominates the landscape. On close inspection, the sediments which make up the Quaternary aged deposits of the Sangatte Cliff, are beautiful, revealing intricate patterns which hold the key to the geological processes that formed them. Even at present, the landscape is being continuously shaped [...]

Imaggeo on Mondays: The waxing Earth 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [2016-05-02 13:00:43]  recommend  recommend this post  (148 visits) info

 DE,CN,IN,
These incredible images of Earth were acquired from the European MSG-2 satellite on July 21, 2009. The MSG, which stands for Meteosat Second Generation, satellites are operated as a series of satellites which continually orbit our planet, capturing detailed images of Europe, Africa and parts of the Atlantic and Indian Ocean every 15 minutes. The data acquired is largely used by meteorologists. The satellites operate in a geostationary orbit. This means they are located some 36000km above the [...]

Announcing the winners of the EGU Photo Contest 2016! 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [2016-04-22 16:00:23]  recommend  recommend this post  (678 visits) info

 CN
The selection committee received over 200 photos for this year’s EGU Photo Contest, covering fields across the geosciences. Participants at the 2016 General Assembly have been voting for their favourites throughout the week  of the conference and there are three clear winners. Congratulations to 2016’s fantastic photographers! In addition, this year, to celebrate the theme of the EGU 2016 General Assembly, Active Planet, the photo that best captured the theme of the conference was selected [...]

Imaggeo on Mondays: Mother Tree 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [2016-03-28 13:45:47]  recommend  recommend this post  (132 visits) info

 FI,MN,CN,FR,DE,IT,RU,GB,
Landlocked, home to mountains, deserts and the southernmost permafrost territories, Mongolia’s climate is harsh.  Warm, often humid summers, give way to freezing winters where temperatures dip as low as -25°C. Rainfall is restricted to a short period in the summer months of June and August. These climatic factors, combined with the lack of a strong forest management strategy and anthropogenic influences, mean that only 11% of the vast 1567 million km²  of the Mongolian territory (that is [...]

Imaggeo on Mondays: Dune ridge perspective 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [2016-03-21 13:06:58]  recommend  recommend this post  (138 visits) info

 CN
Imagine taking a hike over soft, ever shifting sands. This is exactly what Martina Klose, a researcher at USDA, did when she captured this beautiful photograph. While most of us will likely think of deserts as inhospitable and static landscapes, they can tell us much about dune forming processes, as Martina explains in today’s blog post. The photograph shows the view down from the crest of a megadune in the Badain Jaran Desert in China. It was taken during a two-day field trip in the course [...]

Imaggeo on Mondays: Moonland 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [2016-03-14 14:33:34]  recommend  recommend this post  (151 visits) info

 IN,CN
The moon-like landscapes surrounding the Himalayan village of Lamayuru attract tourists seeking off-the-beaten track adventures. The village is enchanting, not only for the striking geological formations that frame it, but also for the presence of an 11th Century Buddhist monastery. The rock formations are known as “Moonland”, says Arjun Datta, author of this week’s imaggeo on Mondays featured photograph. “The surreal moon-like rock formations at Lamayuru are nestled in the Greater [...]

EGU Photo Contest 2016 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [2016-01-27 13:00:01]  recommend  recommend this post  (161 visits) info

 AT
If you are pre-registered for the 2016 General Assembly (Vienna, 17 – 22 April), you can take part in our annual photo competition! Winners receive a free registration to next year’s General Assembly! The seventh annual EGU photo competition opens on 1 February. Up until 1 March, every participant pre-registered for the General Assembly can submit up three original photos and one moving image on any broad theme related to the Earth, planetary, and space sciences. Shortlisted photos will [...]

Imaggeo on Mondays: Man-made landscape 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [2016-01-11 12:30:32]  recommend  recommend this post  (213 visits) info

 GB,BS,US,ES,CN
The landscape of the Mersey Estuary in Liverpool Bay is ever changing; it offers the opportunity to observe the changing geomorphology of a river estuary which is closely linked to a very urban and man-made landscape. For more on this unique setting, read today’s Imaggeo on Mondays post brought to you by Maria Burguet Marimon. This picture was taken at Crosby beach, which is located just at the beginning of the Mersey Estuary in the Liverpool Bay. The current Crosby beach dates back in [...]

Imaggeo on Mondays: night cap over Mt. Fuji 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [2016-01-04 10:30:10]  recommend  recommend this post  (213 visits) info

 JP,US,CN
The first Imaggeo on Monday’s post of 2016 is quite spectacular! It features a lenticular cloud capping the heights of Mount Fuji, in Japan. Erricos Pavlis writes this post and describes how the unusual cloud formation comes about and why Mt. Fuji is such a prime place to catch a glimpse of this meteorological phenomena. Mount Fuji at more than 3700 m is one of the highest volcanoes in the world and the highest mountain in Japan,located some one hundred or so kilometers southwest of [...]

Imaggeo on Mondays: Drawing in pencil 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [2015-12-21 12:30:05]  recommend  recommend this post  (242 visits) info

 NO,RO,US,CN,AU
The picture was taken in Salina Turda, a fascinating salt mine in western Transylvania, in Durgău – Valea Sarată near Turda city. In the picture, the pockets created by salt dissolution can be observed. Over time, due to the erosive power of air currents, the walls have been reshaped: the corners have been rounded and, at the contact between the roof and the walls, a series of dissolution pockets form. The pockets are created by the effect of the water, found in the moist atmospheric [...]

Dinossauros portugueses na perspectiva do artista Nobu Tamura 

Lusodinos- Dinossauros de Portugal [2015-12-15 23:01:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (121 visits) info

 US
img
Nobu Tamura é um dos artistas especializado em paleoarte com um portfólio que vale a pena visitar em Blog Spinops onde tem os seguintes dinossauros portugueses: Zby atlanticus, Miragaia longicollum, Torvosaurus gurneyi, e o crocodilomorfo Theriosuchus pusillus.Zby atlanticus na perspectiva do artista Nobu Tamura.Os seus trabalhos estão disponíveis para uso não comercial através da licença Creative Commons 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). Desta forma, Tamura fez [...]

Imaggeo on Mondays: Flying Rocks 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [2015-12-14 12:30:03]  recommend  recommend this post  (151 visits) info

 CH,US,CN,KM,NL
The picture was taken at a hillslope close to the glacier tongue of the Great Aletsch Glacier, the largest glacier in the Alps. With a length of 23 km it is located in the eastern Bernese Alps of Switzerland and composed of the three smaller glaciers Aletschfirn, Jungfraufirn and Eternal snow field converging at Concordia where the ice thickness was measured to be around 900m. The whole area was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2001. Alpine slopes in the region have been exposed to [...]

Imaggeo on Mondays: Annapurna snow avalanche 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [2015-12-07 13:00:08]  recommend  recommend this post  (144 visits) info

 DE,CN,AU,KM,NP,IN
The Annapurna massif, is located in an imposing 55 km long collection of peaks in the Himalayas which behave as a single structural block. Composed of one peak (Annapurna I Main) in excess of 8000 m, a further thirteen peaks over 7000 m and sixteen more of over 6000 m, the massif forms a striking structure within the Himalayas. Annapurna I Main, the tenth highest peak in the world, is towering at an impressive 8,091 m. Renowned for its difficult climbing conditions, it holds one of the highest [...]

Imaggeo on Mondays: Giants Causeway 

GeoLog-The official blog of the European Geosciences Union [2015-11-30 13:00:40]  recommend  recommend this post  (135 visits) info

 GB,US,CN,IE
Since its discovery back in the late 1600s the origin of the spectacular polygonal columns of the Giants Causeway, located on a headland along the northern coast of Ireland, has been heavily debated. Early theories for its origin ranged from being sculpted by men with picks and chisels, to the action of giants, through to the force of nature. It wasn’t until 1771 that Demarest, a Frenchman, suggested that the origin of the world-famous headland was indeed volcanic. “The myth goes that the [...]
Stratigraphy.net | Impressum
Ads: